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India logged 37,593 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases increased marginally to 3,22,327, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
The total tally of Covid-19 cases increased to 3,25,12,366 and the number of deaths climbed to 4,35,758 with 648 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8:00am, reports NDTV.
The active cases comprise 0.99 per cent of the total infections.
The national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.67 per cent, the ministry said.
An increase of 2,776 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
Meanwhile, sixteen Afghanistan evacuees out of the 78 that landed in India yesterday are coronavirus positive. As a measure of precaution, all 78 have been quarantined.
All 16 returnees are said to be asymptomatic - patients who don't exhibit any symptoms of the virus.
Among those infected are three granthis who carried the copies of the Sikh holy scriptures back to India from Kabul. Union Minister Hardeep Puri, who received the copies of the Sikh holy scripture at the Delhi airport Tuesday morning, had tweeted a video of him carrying one of the copies on his head with reverence.
